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| Remains of HOSPITAL [continued] | 005 | [Continued from page 36] vowed and consecrated warriors many of whose exploits shed lustre on the darkness of the middle ages like the path of a meteor through the gloom of a lowering sky. In the interior of the transept or choir at its south end beneath one of the windows is a curious arch in the form of a canopy about six feet in span within which it is said the bodies of the Knights were laid before interment and during the performance of the funeral rites and close beside it is a font for holy water. There is an antiquely carved stone built into a comparatively modern part of the inner wall on the west side on which the following inscription may with difficulty and perhaps also with some uncertainty be read "Gualterus Lindesay Justiciarius Generalis de Scotland et Principalis Preceptor Torphicensis 1538" The inscription is in what is termed the black letter characters and is embarrassed by several abbreviations but the above seems to be its true reading as far as can be made out. -- New Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] of Linlithgowshire pages 47 to 49 |
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[page] 37[Note] -- See also Old Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] vol. [volume] 4 page 469
A little N.E. [North East] of the village of Torphichen are some remains of the hospital or preceptory of
Torphichen the principal residence of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem of the Church of
the preceptory the chancel and nave are entirely gone and only the choir and the transepts
now remain. The nave is traditionally reported to have been of great length but is now
Satirically represented by a plain edifice of the size, form, and appearance of a barn
the modern parish church. The Gothic window of the Southern transept makes some [Continued on page 38]
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